Art WaVeS Gallery Blog

Go See................

05/04/2012 15:01:00

The Cult of Beauty - the Victorian Avant Garde 1860 - 1900

is at the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, now through June 17.

This is one in a series of shared exhibits with the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, in collaboration with the Musee d'Orsay, Paris, and the only showing

in the United States.

Susan writes

"Walking into and through this show was like sinking into a huge sumptuous multi-patterned perfumed pillow. I was there on a day when I wanted no demands placed on me, not even from art. I just wanted to be immersed in … well … beauty -- and not think about why the beauty was beautiful. A different day would have produced a different reaction, though most certainly positive. I did rouse myself enough to decide that the Whistlers – notably the famous Lady in White and the various iterations of Nocturne – were my favorites."

Three to see in San Francisco.......

04/06/2012 13:35:00

Black & White, an exhibition of analog and digital photographs by Harvey Milk Photo Center staff and members, celebrates the tradition of black and white photography. There are over 100 images (all black and white) in the show. Art WaVeS artist Roxanne Worthington has two infrared images in it. Call the Photo Center before coming to be sure the gallery is open. Sometimes it is in use for classes or community events.

50 Scott Street , Duboce Park (415) 554-9522 harveymilkphotocenter.org

(exhibit closes April 26)

Arthur Tress: San Francisco 1964 Another wonderful photography exhibit, at the de Young Museum, contains some of the early documentary work of Tress, who visited his sister in the spring and summer of 1964. And while exploring the streets of the City during the arrival of the Beatles and the Republican Convention instead concentrated on taking photos of everyday people, signs, store windows...........a random collection of some 900 shots of much of San Francisco seen through the eyes of this very talented visitor. He developed and printed these himself here in the Castro and when his visit ended he packed away the prints and negatives which he rediscovered in 2009 on another visit. One thing that made his show special to me is the fact that our oldest daughter was born in 1964, and each year during her birthday month my husband and I take her to the de Young where we visit the exhibits, treat her to lunch and gift her with a family subscription to the Fine Arts Museums. This exhibit made the day extra special for us all.

de Young Museum, Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive

(exhibit closes May 13)

Do Not Destroy: Trees, Art and Jewish Thought. (Bal Tashchit in Hebrew),

is one of the current exhibits at the Contemporary Jewish Museum. The pieces in the show were curated especially for the exhibit from winners of a long-running invitational competition. The title of the exhibition is taken from a commandment in the Torah that forbids the wanton destruction of trees during wartime. By creating works of art with the tree as a central motif, artists reference the real world while envisioning an alternative.

736 Mission Street (across from Yerba Buena Gardens)

(exhibit closes September 9)

“Themes and Variations.” show at AWE Gallery

03/10/2012 16:31:00

Art Waves Gallery artist Susan Black has partnered with artist Pauline Scott in a two person show of their new watercolors, pastels, drawings and acrylics called “Themes and Variations” at theAWE Gallery. A Woman's Eye is a women's cooperative gallery at 678 Portola Drive next to the purple church, and across from Mollie Stone’s Market, in San Francisco. The show is open Saturdays and Sundays from 12noon to 5pm, and continues until the end of March. Or contact Susan to make an appointment (susanb224@aol.com).

After the exhibition closes, Susan will continue as a resident artist at theAWE Gallery.

Starting off 2012........

02/10/2012 11:08:00

Starting off 2012 with plans for our THIRD ANNUAL SUMMER ART SALON......

Dates and times to be announced soon.

Classes at FOGBELT STUDIO will begin in March and run through October.......

Dates and times to be announced soon.

Susan and Kathy will again be making the rounds of the Bay Area museums and galleries, and putting their notes and news in the blog......keep checking to see what we find.

Pissarro's People - Go See!!

11/02/2011 10:47:00

We went to the Legion of Honor in San Francisco to see Pissarro's People, an exhibit of nearly 100 of his works, and what a wonderful exhibit! Viewing the beautiful Pissarro's People made me feel transported to 18th Century France. It was beautiful and so informatively curated. Room after room filled with his vibrant textural paintings of people doing their every day work - family, workers in fields, just common ordinary people - also sketches, studies, drawings and etchings. He was so prolific. And an anarchist in a good sense - feeling that everyone was equal and it shows in his portrayal of the workers. You could stand practically nose to painting, almost smell the paint - even though his last work was late 1890s.

Also there is another wonderful exhibit - The Mourners - 37 small tomb sculptures, all in carved alabaster, in near perfect condition, from the Court of Burgundy early 1400s. The Mourners were intriguing and quite fitting for the season (kind of creepy, otherworldly).

Both exhibits will be up until the end of 2011

Art in October

10/23/2011 20:57:00

Lots of art to view this month of October - each weekend Open Studios in San Francisco.....5 weekends = 800 + Artists. Art Span's guide book is the best ever this year with good sized color images of the work. Hurry! only one weekend to go, and that is the Hunters Point area.

Art we have year round at our main San Francisco museums, opens three shows this month: Masters of Venice - Renaissance Painters comes to the de Young on October 29th, Pissarro's People opened on October 22 at the Legion of Honor and Richard Serra Drawing - a retrospective at SFMOMA began October 15. Plan to see each one, but no need to rush - all three shows continue into 2012.

I chose to venture down to Pacifica today to attend a reception for Tangerine Arts at Ocean Yoga - 90C Eureka Square. A group of local women artists who show together have their wonderful artwork in this peaceful setting until November 27th. www.oceanyoga.com

Then onto Sanchez Art Center on Linda Mar Blvd. for the Art Guild of Pacifica's 53rd annual Members Exhibit, and the Awards for Excellence from last year's show featuring the winners Bill Gallo, Myles Kleinfeld and Deanna Taubman. All three galleries filled with good art in many mediums - Four artists (Amanda Boehm-Garcia, Cynthia Rettig, Janine Stegnaier and Denny Holland) received the Awards of Excellence for 2011. There were also six Merit Awards given by Shannon Trimble, the Awards Juror.

Very worthwhile art experiences all - go see and enjoy!

53rd annual Members Exhibit

10/18/2011 11:43:00

The Art Guild of Pacifica is having their 53rd members exhibit October 14

through November 20, 2011..........we will be reviewing it within a week.......

Go see

09/18/2011 18:35:00

… the 50/50 show currently at the Sanchez Art Center in Pacifica until October 2.

This is the third year that Sanchez Art Center has run this show, and it is wonderful! We think this year is the best.

Three of our FOGBELT Summer Art Salon artists are represented –

Jennifer Alpaugh, Michael Risenhoover, and Roxanne Worthington –

beautiful works!

DeWitt Cheng, juror, selected 68 artists committed to creating a body of work, by producing a single work of art in the same medium with the same theme, every day for 50 days. These 3,400 original artworks, each six inches square, fill the Main, West, and East galleries. And all are for sale.

As spectators, we were struck by the diversity of mediums - which ranged from encaustic, mixed media, enamel, chalk pastel, oil, acrylic, traditional and digital photography, monoprint, cyanotype, watercolor and “plain old” pencil.

While the greater Bay Area was well represented among the artists, there were many from locations throughout California to Washington, an indication of greater awareness of this creative and visually exciting Sanchez yearly event.

Sanchez Art Center is located in Pacifica at 1220 Linda Mar Blvd.

Galleries are open Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 1 to 5 pm,

The show ends Sunday, October 2.

Go See

07/05/2011 09:26:00

The Art Guild of Pacifica’s latest show is “Flight.” According to the prospectus, the theme involves any or all possibilities of the term “flight,” including flying, fleeing, soaring, swift movement, transcending ordinary bounds, birds, insects, aviators.

Art WaVeS Gallery Artists Michael Risenhoover and Nancy Russell are coordinating the non-juried show, and Michael’s work can be seen along with that of fellow Art WaVeS people Melinda Lightfoot and Susan Black.

“Flight” opens in the West Gallery on Friday, July 8, with a reception from 7-9 PM, and runs until Sunday August 14. Sanchez Art Center at 1220 Linda Mar Boulevard in Pacifica - hours are Fridays-Saturdays-Sundays 1-5 PM. http://www.sanchezartcenter.org/

SUMMER ART SALON.......It was fun!

06/30/2011 17:14:00

It was fun!

That was the bottom line, for me, of the SUMMER ART SALON weekend. Details on the show, and the participating artists and our theme, are elsewhere on this website, so I won’t repeat them here. But … fun!

It was fun to help set up all the work – the paintings, photographs, prints, glass pieces and sculptures – and admire the imagination and the technical prowess that each piece embodied. It was fun to distribute the 100+ pieces around Kathy’s house in a balanced, eye-pleasing, “come look at me” manner. It was fun to greet visitors as they arrived and guide them around. It was fun to listen to questions and answers. It was fun to sit quietly with my fellow artists and talk about some pertinent art issues.

And it was more than fun to reflect on what an artistically rich and diverse area we live in and create in. The Summer Art Salon was but a sampling of what was on offer in the Bay Area that weekend – any weekend, actually, any day – to look at, admire, question and be inspired by.